Hi Monks. I would like some help gaining insight on this one. I've just been installing dependency dists for a CPAN module and one of them fails the make install step. Tracing the action, I see this dangling off the end of the usual processing:

Appending installation info to D:/AllSBP\lib\perl5\MSWin32-x64-multi-t
+hread/perllocal.pod
destdir=; \
test -n "$destdir" && destdir="-d $destdir"; \
create-modulino.pl -m Module::ScanDeps::FindRequires \
   -a find-requires $destdir -b D:/AllSBP\bin
'destdir' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
gmake: *** [makefile:1006: install] Error 1

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The Makefile statements that generate that look like this: 
# --- MakeMaker postamble section:
#-*- mode:makefile; -*-

postamble ::
install::
    destdir=$(DESTDIR); \
    test -n "$$destdir" && destdir="-d $$destdir"; \
    create-modulino.pl -m Module::ScanDeps::FindRequires \
       -a find-requires $$destdir -b $(INSTALLSITESCRIPT)


# End.

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Oh, you'd like to know which distribution this is? Of course. It's Module::ScanDeps::Static v1.7.6.

I imagine this is a very cool thing when it works (haven't tried it on Gnu/Linux yet). My perl setup is:

osname=MSWin32 osvers=10.0.26100.4652 archname=MSWin32-x64-multi-thread uname='Win32 strawberry-perl 5.42.0.1 # 05:37:25 Fri August 01 2025 x64'

I know the "blah blah is not recognized as an internal or external ..." is classic Windows, often useless in diagnosing what's really going on. This scrap of shell script has me confused though, especially destdir="-d $$destdir". Dunno what that does.

Although we don't see the absence of the create-modulino.pl command in the output, it isn't in the package files and isn't installed anywhere on my PATH.

Hope I am not wasting anyone's time. :-)
Sep 24, 2025 at 21:09 UTC

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In reply to create-modulino.pl appears in a CPAN module Makefile.PL, and nukes the install retval by Intrepid

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